Biography

Lynn Hershman Leeson is an artist who works with many media, including film, photography, videotape and installation. She is also a Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Clicking In: Hotlinks to a Digital Culture. In 1995, she was the first woman to receive both a Tribute and a Retrospective at the San Francisco International Film Festival. In 1994, she was awarded (with director Peter Greenaway and theorist Jean Baudrillard) the prestigious Siemens Media Prize by the ZKM, which cited her as being the "most influential woman working in new media." Hershman Leeson has had over 200 exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world. Her artwork is included in such collections as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Seattle Art Museum, The D.G. Bank, Frankfurt, The Hess Collection, and the Walker Art Center. She has had retrospectives at The National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2001)

Lynn Hershman Leeson resides in San Francisco, California and New York City, New York.

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